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The Old Testament church was not to be replaced, but it would be embolden. (Matthew 16:18; Isa. 49:13-23; 60:1 4). "Every word of God is pure: He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. 6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar, (Proverbs 30:5-6)."

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Friday, May 30, 2014

The glue that binds American Christian Zionists with (and their
support for) the state of Israel is their belief that they both are the chosen
people of God. This belief system has been adopted by the erroneous notion
deciphered from the Bible that gave birth to Manifest Destiny and American
Exceptionalism, the two ideological mule teams that have harnessed the imperial
train of 20th century domination.

Part of their core belief consists of not only in believing that
Israel (the people) have been given by God eternal control of that parcel of
land in the Middle East, but they also believe in the popular doctrine they
call the Rapture, where Jesus Christ will catch up all born again believers and
take them to Heaven seven years before God pours out His wrath on people who
will be left behind because they did not believe in nor follow Christ.

Various American Presidents throughout history, such as Wilson,
Truman, Johnson, Reagan and George W. Bush (to name a few) have public stated this ideological
belief of Manifest Destiny or American Exceptionalism within (or as is their
rationale)when
making decisions to invade other countries, which have altered the course of
American history since its inception. Middle East History professor, Lawrence Davidson, in his seminal
work,Christian Zionism as a Representation of American Manifest
Destiny,
provides glowing examples:

“For instance, there was Woodrow Wilson, US president from
1913 to 1921. He believed that America had a God-ordained political destiny to
reform the world. "It is surely the manifest destiny of the United
States," he proclaimed, to demonstrate democracy's "power to
prevail." Wilson
had grown up in a strong Presbyterian environment (his father was a clergyman
and his mother was the daughter of one), read the Bible daily, and was
fascinated with the Zionist movement. His friend and ally Louis Brandeis had
described Zionism to him as a variant on American Progressivism, and so he saw
it as a sort of Americanized biblical endeavor. Thus, after lending his support
to the Balfour Declaration, he marveled that "I, a son of the manse,
should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people." In March of
1919 he informed the Zionist leader Rabbi Stephen Wise: "don't worry
Dr. Wise, Palestine is yours."

Every president since Wilson has drawn connections between
the United States and God. Most have referenced the Bible as a source of
inspiration and alleged a similarity between the destiny of America and the
experiences of the ancient Hebrews. This attitude constitutes a powerful
illusion that continued strongly. For example, Harry Truman (president,
1945-53) believed that "the fundamental basis of this nation's law was
given by Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes
from the teaching of Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul." The
divinely ordained destiny of the United States was to create a "free
world" and to protect it against "godless communism."

Truman
believed part of that mission entailed the establishment of the State of
Israel. He thought that his knowledge of the Old Testament made him an expert
on contemporary Palestine, and it was his "expert" opinion that the
Holy Land was the proper patrimony of the Jews. He took personal offense at
those (particularly in the State Department) who disagreed with this judgment. Having
helped in the establishment of the State of Israel, he said of himself: "I
am Cyrus. I am Cyrus."

Lyndon B. Johnson (president, 1963-69) said that every
time he thought of the Israelis, he either equated them with the biblical
heroes of his youth or with his native Texan ancestors who, as another
"frontier people," fought off the Mexicans. In
a speech to the B'nai B'rith, he explained that his "very deep ties with
the land and people of Israel" were a function of "my Christian
faith" and "the Bible stories woven into my childhood memories." Consequently, as president, Johnson acted as if the United States had a
spiritual connection to both the ancient and modern Israelites.

"Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the
Hebrew prophets." Therefore, he asserted, "America and Israel have
a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic
way of life."

Ronald Reagan (president, 1981-89) had similar views. He
thought that the United States was the product of a "divine plan,"
just as was Israel. He identified the United States with Israel as two
"stable and democratic" countries sharing the same Judeo -Christian
heritage. A believer in the literal truth of the Bible, Reagan also believed in
its prophetic predictions. On at least seven public occasions he alluded to
Bible prophecies about the coming of Armageddon (and thus the destruction of
most of the Jewish people as a prelude to the second coming of Christ), and
in 1983 he explicitly told Thomas Dine of the America-Israel Public Affairs
Committee that these prophecies were true.

Contemporary American Christian Zionists continue to express
these same religious passions and obsessions. Furthermore, they are well
positioned and equipped to spread their ideas. Utilizing televangelist
techniques, religious radio, evangelical newspapers and even novels [such as
Tim LaHaye’s Left Behind series], once more they have taken up pre-millennial
prophecy as a key motivator for American support of Israel.

Simultaneously, according to Robert Pyne, a theologian who works
at the Dallas Theological Seminary, these same evangelicals "identify the
American cause . . . as the cause of Christ."Thus,
for these evangelicals the fate of American and Israel are tied together by
divine prophecy.

One should not think of today's Christian Zionists as a
fringe group. Those who think of themselves as Christian conservatives accept
the Bible as the literal or inspired word of God, believe in prophecy, and
expect the end of the world in the relatively near future, make up close to 20
percent of the American electorate. This
constituency has become the voting core of the Republican Party, or as Karl
Rove, Bush's political adviser, describes it, the Republican Party's
"base.

"And
it is an effective and highly motivated base acting against the backdrop of a
general population known for its political apathy and record of non-voting.”

I would gather most Americans who read this basically feel this
ideology poses no major problem. Many of them, especially those who support a
Pre-Tribulation Rapture to Heaven, believe it doesn’t matter what position they
support, as long as they love Jesus and accept Him as their Lord and savior.

What they fail to realize is that unequivocal support of the
government of Israel’s military policy (which has cost the lives of thousands
of innocent woman and children), based solely on their preconceived notions or
misinterpretation of the Bible (Genesis 12:3), that they must bless Israel or
they will be cursed by God, goes contrary to every law ever enacted by God.
Therefore, one can instantly assume that Christians who support the government
of Israel is an enemy of God!

Students of the Bible recognize that the majority of Christians have been hoodwinked by Premillennial Dispensationalsim, a doctrine that was introduced to the American Evangelical church by John Darby, a Plymouth Brethren from England. Later on, an adherent of that dogma, a country preacher by the name of C.I. Scofield, was recruited by Zionist agents from the Rothschild Empire to alter the Bible and make it more Israel-friendly. Around the early 1900s, Scofield used funds from these Zionists rogues and published his "New Scofield Bible" which became the most used Bible version at most American Seminaries. This is why the majority of modern day professing Christians adopted the "Israel First" and "Rapture to Heaven" doctrines, and have actually been influenced to support the state of Israel or else God will curse them. This is not a biblical mandate!

Whose side are you on?

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Monday, May 26, 2014

Dear friend, allow
me the opportunity to share a few facts concerning how the Pharisaical
Kabbalists, who claim they are Jews but are not, infiltrated the American church and changed it forever. These members of the Church of the Synagogue of Satan, who Jesus admonished and promised them they would eventually fall
down before our feet and admit that Jesus loves us, will suffer for their
dastardly deeds throughout history.

We are warned throughout the New Testament
about false prophets promoting heathen doctrines. Mostly we point
fingers at some of our contemporaries, like Tim LaHaye, John Hagee, Hal
Lindsey, et al of distorting the Gospel, and it's true of their respective works in most cases. Most of these mentioned are primarily ignorant and have been
blinded by the acquired fame and the fortunes they have made by promoting
non-biblical doctrines.

But the real experts are the Pharisaical Kabbalists
themselves. This demonically inspired cabal has been operating behind our societal backs for centuries. They are masters of deception and propaganda (they invented ‘public
relations’) and have used their wealth to buy and control most media (including
book publishing houses), throughout the world. They infiltrated “the church”
over two hundred years ago, and many of them (such as the Plymouth Brethren) were
passengers on the ships that carried the Puritans onto American shores.

One of
their main goals was to introduce and inject false doctrines into our beloved
Gospels, simply by tweaking a little here and tweaking a little there. This is
why Christianity probably has more
sub-cults and church branches than any other religion in history. The ongoing debates (now
proliferating the Internet) is visible proof.

One of the debates that is receiving new life concerns the doctrine inculcated in Preterism, which claims that Jesus Christ already returned in 70 AD when the Romans decimated Jerusalem and that the Resurrection also ensued during that time, that all prophecy has been completed, and basically denying that the "Blessed Hope" that Christians await and look forward to has passed!! Many of the promoters of this doctrine have no idea that this nefarious doctrine was injected in the theological realm hundreds of years ago, and since has been refuted by a myriad of scholars.
For example, the primary theologian responsible for
Preterism is the famous Jesuit monk, Luis de Alcasar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_Alcasar),
whose theory was published immediately after he died (1554–1613). As many will attest (and of which the authors of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zionblatantly boast),
the Jesuits are cultic Pharisees who infiltrated the Catholic Church. Ignatius of Loyola (October 27, 1491– July 31, 1556) a crypto-Jew founded the Jesuit society after being wounded
in battle and supposedly experiencing a religious conversion. He composed theSpiritual Exercisesto help others follow the teachings ofJesus Christ. In 1534, Ignatius and six other young
men, including Francis XavierandPeter Faber, gathered and professed vows of poverty,
chastity, and later obedience, including a special vow of obedience to the
Pope. Rule 13 of Ignatius'sRules
for Thinking with the Churchsaid:
"That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity ... if
[the Church] shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears
to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black."[2]Ignatius's plan of the order's
organization was approved byPope Paul IIIin 1540 by thebullcontaining the "Formula of the
Institute". While many conspiracy theorists attribute all of society's woes should be laid at the feet of the Jesuits (and they alone, such as Eric Jon Phelps claims in his Vatican Assassins book and web site), Jesuits are mere pawns of the more sinister cabal of Pharisaical Rabbinicals who wrote and implemented the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Nevertheless, the Jesuits are demonically inspired and motivated operatives in the larger scheme of these Rabbinicals as are Freemasons, Bilderbergs, Illuminati and all the other fringe cult groups that have permeated every aspect of the social and financial fabric of the world. Loyola, like Alcasar are mere academic pawns of this worldwide master plan to destroy Christianity, as well as Jews and Muslims, in their quest to establish a New World Order. One of the ways of accomplishing their goals is to modify and marginalize the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Since Alcasar’s book came out many theologians picked up on
the dogma of Preterism (including Firmin Abauzit, Philip S. Desprez and) Robert
Townley, who wrote his book in 1845, of which I personally own. More importantly, all of these authors later recanted
their Preterism positions.

Robert Townley(1816-1894)was
minister of St. Matthew’s, Liverpool, and later became a Universalist minister.
He published a book advocating Preterism in 1845. A reviewer wrote of his book:

“This work enters at great length into an attempted
Scripture proof that the following events are already past, viz. “the
Restoration of the Jews, the First Resurrection, or Millennium, the End of the
World, the Resurrection of the Dead, the Day of Judgment, and the Last Day ;
for now there is no more time.” It is a book of much thought, and gives proof
of laborious and critical study of the Sacred Writings. The spirit manifested
towards the Priesthood and the Established Church is fiery enough, and the
general temper of the argument is far from being commendable. But there is very
much in the work worthy of attention.

Townley later recanted his preterism. In a Sermon in the
Universalist Church of Charlestown, Mass,. Sunday Morning, September 26 (1852)
he said:

“We, on the contrary, fulfill everything by that magic
phrase, ‘the destruction of Jerusalem.’ But can we really and seriously refer
these passages which I have quoted from Paul, to the destruction of Jerusalem?
Can we truly say that the rejection of the Jews and the calling of the
Gentiles, let that mean what it may, exhausted all their meaning —the meaning
which was the thought in Paul’s mind when he wrote them? I must confess I
cannot.”

I personally (and logically as well) have to lump Preterism in the same
camp as Premillennial Dispensationalism Rapturism, Messianics, Hebrew Roots and
Israel First dogma, in the sense these theories were injected into American evangelicalism
by the same (Pharisaical, Jesus-Hating) parties and for the same reasons, to
cause confusion and division among the disciples of Jesus Christ For example, the first
person to whom the doctrine concerning a rapture prior to the
second coming of Jesus Christ, can be traced to a Roman
Jesuit named Ribera in 1591 AD. Emmanuel Lacunzaclaimed to
be a converted Jew named "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Under that alias,
he theorized that the Church would be "raptured" before Jesus
returns to Earth. Later in 1827 his book was translated into
English by a Scottish radical named Edward Irving. He published Lacunza's
view in his paper, "The Morning Watch."

In 1830, a 15 year old
charismatic girl namedMargaret
Macdonald, claimed that she had a vision of a "secret
rapture." A year later, Robert Norton, a charismatic Irvingite
evangelist, meets Margaret Macdonald and popularizes her "secret
rapture" vision around England. [Read Dave MacPherson's book The Rapture Plot for more explicit details] As you well know, I have been doing an
extensive amount of research into the Pharisaical Phonies who have been
controlling the world for centuries, whom Jesus pointedly accused them of such
in Revelation
3:9 (I will make those who are of the synagogue
of Satan,who claim to be Jews
though they are not,but are
liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feetand acknowledge that I have loved you).”
One interesting thing I discovered in my
research was a profound quote by a person named Benjamin Disraeli. This
discovery entails a direct admission by these Pharisaical Rabbinicals that they
are responsible for corrupting most countries and societies for their own gain.
Their master plan is blatantly and proudly revealed in The
Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, a document they claim is a forgery,
yet every detail of their process to conquer mankind, destroy Christianity, and
manipulate the masses reads like a simple recipe for baking a cake. Thousands
of people in the last 150 years have written about the Protocols and the
exactness of the most minute details contained with is mind-boggling! One
famous Jews who has admitted the factualness of this master plan was Benjamin
Disreali! Benjamin
Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield,KG,PC,FRS,
(21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a BritishConservativepolitician, writer and aristocrat who
twice served asPrime
Minister. He played a central role in the creation of the modernConservative Party,
defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is “Crypto-Jew” remembered for his influential voice in world
affairs, his political battles with the Liberal leaderWilliam Ewart
Gladstone, and hisone-nation
conservatismor
"Tory democracy". He made the Conservatives the party most identified
with the glory and power of theBritish Empire. He is to date the only British
Prime Minister ofJewish birth.

Disraeli redefined
Judaism as a matter of race rather than religion, and in his ­novels
“Coningsby” (1844), “Sybil” (1845) and “Tancred” (1847), he celebrated occult
Jewish power, always exercised behind the scenes, and always determinative. The
mysterious Sidonia (who figures in all three novels, who is in reality Lord
Rothschild), Kirsch correctly observes, “looks like nothing so much as an anti-­Semitic
hate figure.” In “Coningsby,” Disraeli has Sidonia confide,"You never observe a great
intellectual movementin Europein which the Jews do not greatly
participate. The first
Jesuits were Jews; that mysterious Russian diplomacy which so alarms
western Europe is organized and principally carried on by Jews;that mighty revolutionwhich is at this momentpreparing in Germany,and which will be, in fact,a second and greater Reformation,and of which so little is as yet known
in England,is entirely
developing under the auspices of Jews, who almost monopolize the professorial
chairs of Germany. (Augustus) Neander, the founder of Spiritual Christianity,
and who is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Berlin, is a Jew.
Benary, equally famous, and in the same University, is a Jew. Wehl, the Arabic
Professor of Heidelberg, is a Jew. Years ago, when I was in Palestine, I met a
German student who was accumulating materials for the History of Christianity,
and studying the genius of the place; a modest and learned man. It was Wehl;
then unknown, since become the first Arabic scholar of the day, and the author
of the life of Mahomet. But for the German professors of their race, their name
is Legion. I think there are more than ten in Berlin alone.

"I told you just
now that I was going up to town to-morrow, because I always made it a rule to
interpose when affairs of State were on the carpet. Otherwise, I never
interfere. I hear of peace and war in newspapers, but I am never alarmed,
exceptwhen I am informed that
theSovereigns want treasure;then I know that monarchs are serious.

"A
few years backwe were applied
to by Russia.Now, there has
been no friendship between the Court of St. Petersburg and my family. It has
Dutch connections, which have generally supplied it; andour representationsin favorof the Polish Hebrews, a
numerous race, but the most suffering and degraded of all the tribes, havenotbeen veryagreeable to theCzar.However, circumstances drew to an
approximation between the Romanoffs and the Sidonias. I resolved to go myself
to St. Petersburg. I had, on my arrival, an interview with the Russian Minister
of Finance, Count Cancrin; I beheld the son of a Lithuanian Jew. The loan was
connected with the affairs of Spain; I resolved on repairing to Spain from
Russia. I travelled without intermission. I had an audience immediately on my
arrival with the Spanish Minister, Senor Mendizabel; I beheld one like myself,
the son of a Neuvo
Christiano, a Jew of Arragon. In consequence of what transpired at
Madrid, I went straight to Paris to consult the President of the French
Council; I beheld the son of a French Jew , a hero, an imperial marshal, and
very properly so, for who should be military heroes if not those who worship
the Lord of Hosts?"

"And is Soult a
Hebrew?"

"Yes,
and others of the French marshals, and the most famous; Massena, for example;
his real name was Manasseh; but to my anecdote. The consequence of our
consultations was, that some Northern power should be applied to in a friendly
and mediative capacity. We fixed on Prussia; and the President of the Council
made an application to the Prussian Minister, who attended a few days after our
conference. Count Arnim entered the cabinet, and I beheld a Prussian Jew.So you see, my dear
Coningsby, thatthe world is
governed by very different personages from what is imagined by thosewho arenot behind the scenes."

For a parallel
account of such transactions, see Karl Marx' articleThe Russian Loan in
which he wrote," theJews
... monopolise the machinery of the loan-mongering mysteriesby concentrating their energies
upon the barter of trade in securities, and the changing of money and
negotiating of bills in a great measure arising there from. ...This Jew organization of loan-mongers
is as dangerousto the peopleas the aristocratic organization of
landowners. ... But it is only because the Jews are so strong that it is
timely and expedient to expose their organisation."

Dear friend, I could name so many
other professing Pharisees who have infested themselves in most societies (including
both the Catholic and Protestant churches) and organizations, whose origins are
born within this Pharisaical (Jewish)
Zionist cabal, going back as far as the times when the church was established
after Christ ascended, such as the most Reverend William Heckler, who planted
the seeds of Zionism into the empty-headed mind of Theodore Herzl, who had no
clue whatsoever about “Sidonia’s (Rothschild)” plans to establish Palestine as
the homeland for the Jews. I can roll off the tip of my tongue many other
Rothschild rogues such as Jacob Schiff who was raised in Rothschild’s home and
sent to America to establish the Central Bank and the Fed, who fed money into abolitionist
John Brown’s camp to incite blacks to rebel against slavery, which ignited the
American Civil War. Schiff also funded the Japanese in the Russo-Japan War to
weaken Russia, and then ordered and funded the assassination of the Czar of
Russia, as well as funding Marx and Engle to launch communism. There is also Samuel Untermeyer, who blackmailed Woodrow Wilson, the
adulterer and President of Princeton University, (and later President of the
United States), into appointing Judge Louis Brandeis (head of Zionism in the
US) onto the Supreme Court (who later gave Wilson the legal go-head to start the 1st World War, and
who also launched a campaign in America to boycott German goods in 1933, which
forced it into starting the 2nd
World War. As the newspaper item below proves, it was through Untermeyer's nefarious machinations that actually resulted in the Jews declaring war against Germany!!
It’s interesting to note that Schiff and Untermeyer were both members of the
Lotus Club of New York, a private fraternal organization that provided membership to a country
bumpkin preacher by the name of C.I. Scofield, the father of Premillennialism!! Scofield lived at the club's facilities at no cost to him for over 20 years!

Untermeyer, a lawyer with a devious reputation, earlier blackmailed U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (an adulterer who had an affair with the wife of a fellow professor while he was the President
of Princeton University) into
appointing Judge Louis Brandeis (head of Zionism in the US) onto the Supreme
Court (who later gave Wilson the legal go-head to start World War 1). He also
orchestrated a deal that secured a letter for Lord Rothschild from Lord Balfour
promising it would force America to support Britain in the 1st World War in exchange for the right to establish Palestine as the homeland for Jews throughout the entire world.

Schiff was responsible for getting
attorney John J Ingalls (1833-1900) who was a lawyer, Kansas State
senator, Secretary of State and judge advocate during the Civil War who rose to
the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and US Senator. Ingalls assisted Scofield in
gaining admission to the Bar, and helped him to procure his appointment as Federal
Attorney for Kansas. Ingalls was born into Massachusetts society and was thus
from the Eastern Establishment. He was a graduate of Williams College and was
apart from his other activities the spokesman for a Boston group known as The
Secret Six (all Freemasons), who struck the match that ignited the Civil
War. Schiff also owned the publishing house in
England that printed the New Scofield Bible, which poisoned American
evangelical minds to adopt and advocate for “Israel First” and the Rapture to
Heaven dogma. What convenient friendships and associations. It does not take a
Christian Rocket scientist to connect these dots.

Bottom line, dear friend, this enemy we battle with have superior
intelligence and intellect, which operates its machinations through stealth,
who have been able to infiltrate all entities of society (including the church,
evangelicals along with politicians in every country in the world), for over
200 hundred years and which soon will take complete control of all mankind.

Our only defense is the power of the Holy Spirit (especially the
gift of discernment) to counter as much propaganda as possible (such as
Preterism, Rapturism) and all other false gospels that permeate society
(especially on the Internet), in order to snatch as many ignorant souls as we
can from the roaring fires and smoke that blinds them!

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

(The late Grant Jeffrey still states on his website that "the argument that no one ever saw this [pretrib] 'truth' throughout eighteen hundred years of Church history has been very effective, causing many Christians to abandon their belief in the pretribulation Rapture"! Since Thomas Ice has been claiming on Todd Strandberg's Rapture Ready site that I'm the one who's been "fabricating a false history of the pre-trib rapture" in order to promote the same 1800-year argument, let's see what pretrib leaders are still claiming about their own view's history, plus my responses to them.)

CLAIM: Many pretrib rapture promoters (and indolent copycats) are still giving credit for the pretrib rapture to early Plymouth Brethren leader John Darby (whom John Walvoord truthfully viewed as one of the "early" pretribs!) and also claim that Darby "understood" pretrib as early as late 1826 or early 1827.

MY RESPONSE: Darby's earliest paper (1827) emphasized only the "heavenly church" and he expected to be on earth until the start of a future millennium, and his 1828 paper focused on only the church's "unity." His 1829 paper looked for only the Rev. 19:11 coming while his 1830 paper expected only the Matt. 25:31 coming. As late as 1837 his church/Israel "dichotomy" that he supposedly discovered 10 years earlier was still nonexistent when he described the church as "going in with Him to the marriage, to wit, with Jerusalem and the Jews"!

Not until 1839 ("Notes on the Revelation") did Darby have clear pretrib teaching! Basing it on Rev. 12:5's "man child," he wrote: "If we apply it to the saints, who overcome here...then we find that...they are caught up out of his [the dragon's] way....; and the trial and persecution fall on those who are left here----upon the woman." (Amazingly, eminent "doctors" either haven't known, or have covered up, the fact that the "man child" symbol----and not Rev. 4:1 with its seven-year "gap"----was Darby's beginning pretrib basis for three decades while he held to only a 1260-day tribulation! And he wasn't originial on any of dispensationalism's crucial aspects!)

CLAIM: In 1973 R. A. Huebner, a Darby-idolizing member of the Plymouth Brethren, self-published a booklet dedicated to distorting my uncovered information about Darby and some of his contemporaries and claimed that the "Irvingites (1828-1834) never held the pretribulation rapture or any 'any-moment' views."

MY RESPONSE: In Sep. 1830 Irvingites (followers of London preacher Edward Irving) discussed Revelation's seven churches in their journal "The Morning Watch" and actually stated that "Philadelphia" will be "caught up" before a future "period of great tribulation" while the "Laodicean church" will be left behind "on earth" to face that period----the first clear public teaching of pretrib that I've found. Knowing that he could keep crediting Darby with pretrib if he kept covering up or distorting Irvingite doctrine, Huebner's 1991 book claimed that the phrase "period of great tribulation" meant nothing more than "the pouring out of the seventh vial"----evidence, he said, that only a posttrib coming was being projected.

But this was just another of Huebner's many cover-ups; he omitted telling readers that three pages later the Irvingite writer declared twice that "the great tribulation" would follow the rapture----proof indeed that his rapture was a pretrib one! (The article you're now reading includes R. A. Huebner, a retired electrical engineer who never attended any college or Bible school, simply because his dishonest material was hurriedly appropriated by Walvoord and Ryrie whose books in turn have had incredible influence on many including Lindsey, LaHaye, and Ice! Huebner's writings, by the way, have hundreds of copying errors that I've counted when he quotes others, but he compensates for his unscholarliness by burying or twisting historical data!)

My book The Rapture Plot has seven pages of short quotes from the same Irvingite mouthpiece (1831-1833) which indisputably disclose a pretrib rapture as well as pretrib-type imminence----all this appearing in print years before Darby expressed such concepts!

CLAIM: If I were to put into one sentence the gist of what some of my critics have claimed about Margaret Macdonald, it would look something like this: "Since Margaret was a partial rapturist, she couldn't have been a pretrib, especially since she wrote that 'The trial of the Church is from Antichrist'----clearly a posttrib statement!"

MY RESPONSE: In his 1979 book The Rapture Question - Revised (p. 97) Walvoord correctly states that partial rapturists are "pretribulationists"----pretribs who see only part of the church participating in a pretrib rapture. By deliberately isolating Margaret's Antichrist statement (above), my critics demonstrate either their laziness or deviousness. Every leading 19th century partial rapturist (my Plot quotes several) looked for a pretrib rapture of only "worthy" Christians and referred to the ones left behind as the "church"----the term Margaret used for those not worthy enough to be raptured. Even Darby, when analyzing partial rapturism, wrote that the ones left behind in that scheme are called the "church"!

THE END IS HERE: As you can tell, I would rather be an honest B.A. (Better Author) than a lazy or lying Ph.D. (Pretrib History Distorter)! You have just read perhaps 1 percent of my No. 1 book The Rapture Plot. You can obtain the other 99 percent by calling 800.643.4645. (All of my book royalties, BTW, have always gone to a nonprofit organization which has never paid salary to anyone.)

Right now I'm going to do something out of character. I'm going to predict that one of these days some unthinkably horrendous event (or events) will cause many Laodicean-type Christians to not only abandon pretrib in droves but even become physically violent toward their pretrib teachers!

Years ago my wife and I visited an elderly fellow believer in his home in Alberta, Canada who told us, from firsthand knowledge, that soon after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917, a man in that country went to his pastor, angrily threw down his Bible, and shouted: "You lied to us! You said we would be raptured away first!"

The Dutch heroine Corrie ten Boom declared in a 1974 article (see "The Coming Tribulation" online) that when communism took over in China "millions of Christians were tortured to death" who had previously been assured: "Don't worry, before the tribulation comes you will be translated----raptured."
And violence among Christians took place later in Korea after a predicted rapture failed to happen!

As long as America continues to turn away from God and turn suicidally to anti-Christian, anti-decency, pro-violence, and pro-perversion degenerates, the Holy One will be forced to give us more and more "breaking news" of events that are even more horrendous which will cause disillusioned pretrib rapture believers to mistrust pretrib merchandisers (and history revisers) even more!

Dave MacPherson. What People are saying ... THE RAPTURE PLOT!

Gary DeMar (President American Vision): "A
majority of prophecy writers and speakers teach that the church will be
raptured before a future tribulational period. But did you know that prior to
about 1830 no such doctrine existed. No one in all of church history ever
taught pretribulational rapture. Dave MacPherson does the work of a
journalistic private investigator to uncover the truth....The Rapture Plot is
the never-before-told true story of the plot - how plagiarism and subtle
document changes created the 'mother of all revisionisms.' A fascinating piece
of detective work." Robert H. Gundry (Professor Westmont College):
"As usual MacPherson out hustles his opponents in research on primary
sources. C. S. Lovett (President Personal Christianity): You don't read very
much of Dave MacPherson's work before you realize he is a dedicated researcher.
Because his work has been so honest and open his latest work The Rapture Plot
has produced many red faces among some of the most recognized rapture writers
of our time. When their work is compared to his it is embarrassing for them to
see how shallow their research is." R. J. Rushdoony (President Chalcedon):
"Dave MacPherson has been responsible for major change in the eschatology
of evangelical churches by his devastating studies of some of the central
aspects thereof. In The Rapture Plot MacPherson tells us of the strange tale of
'rapture' writings, revisions, cover-ups, alterations and confusions. No one
has equaled MacPherson in his research on the 'pretrib rapture.' Attempts to
discredit his work have failed...."

About the Author: Born 1932 of Scotch/English
descent Dave MacPherson is a natural for British historical research. His
calling was journalism. Receiving a BA in English in 1955 he spent 26 years as
a newsman reporting and filming many notable events persons presidents and
dignitaries.

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Most (true disciples of Christ) Christians realize
that we do not war against flesh and blood (meaning our fellow human beings)
but the battle includes primarily principalities and evil spirits in high
places, meaning demonic entities, (Ephesians 6:10-13) . A good
example is when loved ones end up arguing, afterwards they hold grudges and are
unwilling to forgive and forget because they sincerely believe their nemesis is
at fault. To a great degree this is true; however, they fail to realize that
there are demonic forces all around us, pricking our hearts and minds with lies
and malevolent attacks designed to cause friction and division. For those who
recognize this reality, they are usually the ones to quickly make amends and
begin the healing process. After the forgiveness process begins, both parties
will normally begin to apologize and tell each other they did not mean it, they
just lost their cool.

However, there are daily battles
that are ongoing where these demonic spirits intensify their efforts because
many individuals have opened their spiritual domains by actually entertaining
(and even hosting) demonic spirits into their lives by imbibing in pernicious
and pleasurable lies and activities that go contrary to the will of God. Most
certainly, there are millions of individuals who have been felled by drugs and
alcohol and involvement with supernatural phenomenon that controlled their
lives for decades. Those who have been freed from these demonic anomalies
through the power of God (by virtue of the prayers and support from loved ones)
are eternally grateful for their deliverance.

Unfortunately, there is a myriad
of youth (and even adults) who are falling victim to demonic forces, by entertaining and eventually believing in new philosophies being implanted in their minds and hearts by liberal
elements intent on destroying their moral and physical standards. I could spend days listing them; however, most folks know what they are.

Sadly, many
youth (and even adults) are unaware of the origin of such diabolical anomalies
that go contrary to the will and word of God. Provocateurs of these anomalies
have been among us from the very beginning, starting with the (Satanic)
serpent when he tempted and told Eve she would become like God when he urged her to eat
the fruit of the tree of knowledge between good and evil. Those Satanic-bred
forces (you can call them Illuminati, Bilderbergs, Jesuits, Freemasons, Zionists
Jews, it doesn’t matter) their intent has been to poison the hearts and mind of
mankind to turn against its creator, especially Jesus Christ!

Many of you use social media to
preach your new found knowledge of God and the Gospel, hopefully to reach those
who are lost. Many of you use this pulpit to show off your vast knowledge of the
Bible (and or your specific doctrine), hopefully to gain points with God. Fine!
What many of you fail to realize is that you do not have to become an Internet
missionary (or even travel to Israel, Iran, Iraq or other foreign countries) to
fulfill your calling. As a matter of fact, if you pay close attention, you will
find the harvest fields right in your own hometown and, maybe, even inside your
own home!

Naw! Not our own kids?

Yes, we love our children and will
do anything for them. Many (mothers especially) love to shower their sons and
daughters with lavish gifts and other ingratiating amenities, most often to
curry their favor, loyalty and even their adoration. These can do no wrong in their parents' eyes.

Fine!

But many of you have no idea
what your own children are doing right behind your back, right here on the
Internet and social media outlets like Facebook. You are so busy with your
so-called “ministry” you have failed to research exactly what your own child is
doing, sometimes right in front of you.

Take the time to do a little
trolling of your own and view the various pages of your kids’ blogs, web sites
and yes, even their Facebook pages. You will be amazed! Unfortunately, I can
attest to this due to a recent revelation I experienced when I decided to view
the pages and photo sections of some of my nieces and nephews and even sons and
daughters. I was shocked! Not only were their photos shocking to say the least.
I was flummoxed to see that some of my own beloved relatives were actually not
only posting demonic photos, but were
listing various diabolic and pornographic web sites they visit on a regular
basis.

What does one do about this?
Obviously you do not want your family and friends to continue in a path that
will result in them losing their salvation. You most certainly do not want to
call them up and begin blasting them with the Gospel across their face. They
will probably tell you to take a hike.

However, you can begin a dialogue by
telling them you were wondering how things are going with their life, and that
you are there to help them anyway you can. They may open up and begin sharing
with you because you have expressed a genuine concern.

But, be forewarned!
Before even doing that, share this with genuine spirit-filled folks you trust and enter into a season of prayer, first and foremost.

As a guide, I am including a link
to The
Book of Judewhich will help you to better understand this important issue. Think about it, that your own kids, relatives and close friends could end up missing out on spending an eternity with you and Jesus Christ because you failed to snatch them out of the flames!

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Thursday, May 08, 2014

The
entire issue concerning Satan’s status throughout the Bible presents a unique
conundrum for many Christians and Bile scholars as well. It does not appear that
any one person has been able to identify and place Satan’s journey throughout
history in any chronological order, a problem that confuses, upsets and
overturns various doctrines found among eschatologists.

Satan was created as a
holy angel.Isaiah 14:12possibly gives Satan’s pre-fall name as Lucifer. Ezekiel 28:12-14describes Satan as having been created a cherubim, apparently
the highest created angel. He became arrogant in his beauty and status and
decided he wanted to sit on a throne above that of God (Isaiah 14:13-14;Ezekiel 28:15;1 Timothy 3:6). Satan’s pride led to his fall. Notice the many “I will”
statements in Isaiah 14:12-15. Because of his sin, God permanently removed Satan from his
exalted position and role. Satan became the ruler of this world and the
prince of the power of the air (John
12:31;2 Corinthians 4:4;Ephesians 2:2). He is an accuser (Revelation 12:10), a tempter (Matthew
4:3;1 Thessalonians 3:5), and a deceiver (Genesis
3;2 Corinthians 4:4;Revelation 20:3). His very name means “adversary” or “one who opposes.”
Another of his titles, the devil, means “slanderer.” Even though he was cast out of heaven, he still
seeks to elevate his throne above God. He tries to counterfeit (and his
succeeded in some things) everything that God does, hoping to gain the worship
of the world and encourage opposition to God's kingdom. Satan is the ultimate
source behind every false cult and world religion. Satan will do anything and
everything in his power to oppose God and those who follow God. However,
Satan’s destiny is sealed—an eternity in the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10).

One
of the first times mentioned (or inferences) of diabolical forces are made in the Bible is found in the Genesis account
in Chapter 3, where Adam and Eve were
tempted by the snake(identified by most people as being Satan) to eat the fruit
of the tree of knowledge of God and evil.

In
Chapter 6, we see “the sons of God” cohabiting with the daughters of men and
begetting the so-called Nephilim, who became giants and men of renown. Many
eschatologists and Bible theorists believe these “Sons of Gods” are diabolical angelic
beings who left their former estate in Heaven and co-mingled with the human
race and thereby created a human hybrid (Nephilim), whose spirits (after they
died supposedly) have been bound to earth to roam as spiritual entities that we
today call demons. One question begs to be asked: Should these “sons of God”
who left their former habitations in Heaven be identified as the one third of
the angels that left Heaven along with Satan when he rebelled against God?

As
we read in the Book of Job, it appears that Satan had access to God at that
time (which no one has been able to confirm the exact date) where” 6 One day the angels came to present themselves before theLord, and Satan also came with them.7 TheLordsaid to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered theLord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.” 8 Then theLordsaid to Satan, “Have you
considered my servant Job?There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a
man who fears Godand shuns evil.”

The next place in the Bible where we see an inference being made to Satan (or
the devil), where he is commonly referred to as
a 'fallen' angel - meaning, he is an angel who rebelled and sinned against God
is in Ezekiel 28:14-18. Supposedly, angels, including Satan, have free-will
(just like we do) and they chose to disobey God. Supposedly One-third of the
other Angels also followed Satan and were cast out of heaven, although, we do
not see how many angels actually left Heaven with Satan until Revelation 12:4,
which does not necessarily identify actual angels but calls them “stars” as
inferred by many theorists as well.

In the book of Ezekiel 28:14-18,
we see a group of scripture that many theorists believe is not only describing
the entity they call Satan, but an actually story from his beginning to his
demise.

You were
anointed as a guardian cherub,for so I ordained you.You were on the holy mount of God;you walked among the fiery stones.

You were blameless in your waysfrom the day you were createdtill wickedness was found in you.

Through your widespread tradeyou were filled with violence,and you sinned.So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of
God,and I expelled you, O guardian cherub,from among the fiery stones.

Your heart became proudon account of your beauty,and you corrupted your wisdombecause of your splendor.So I threw you to the earth;I made a spectacle of you before kings.

By your many sins and dishonest tradeyou have desecrated your sanctuaries.So I made a fire come out from you,and it consumed you,and I reduced you to ashes on the groundin the sight of all who were watching.

Revelation,
Chapter 12 provides us with a convoluted narrative that thousands of theorists
throughout history have tried to explain away, including how many angels comprise Satan’s diabolical army, along with futurists’ explanation as
to what happens in the period known as the “end times.”:3 And another sign appeared in heaven:
behold, a great,red
dragon,with seven heads andten horns, and on his headsseven diadems.4 His
tail swept downa third of the
stars of heaven andcast them to
the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth,
so that when she bore her childhe
might devour it.5 She gave birth to a male child,one who is to rule all the nations
with a rod of iron, but her child wascaught
up to God and to his throne,6 and the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for1,260 days.

Satan Thrown Down to Earth

7 Now war arose in heaven,Michael andhis
angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,8 but he
was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.9 Andthe great dragon was
thrown down,that ancient
serpent, who is called the devil and Satan,the
deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were
thrown down with him,

“Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom
of our God, and the authority of his Messiah. For the accuser of our brothers
and sisters, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled
down.

11They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by
the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink
from death. 12Therefore
rejoice, you heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the
sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he
knows that his time is short, (Revelation
12:3-12)”

We see another conundrumatic scenario concerning the
status of (fallen) angels in Jude 1:6 where, “…the angels who did not keep their positions
of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness,
bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.”

If Satan is to be
considered an “angel” should we view him as being among these entities we see held
in the same captivity as are these above? Should we therefore see where Satan
has been thrown down in Revelation 12:3-9 and Jude 1:6 as being the same
occasion? If so, when does this occur? At Calvary or yet some time in the
future immediately before Christ returns? The above scripture (Jude 1:6) is
stated immediately after we see the following remarks in verse 5:” “Though you
already know all this,I want to
remind youthat the Lordat one time delivered his
people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe, (Jude
1:5).” Should we picture that this angelic incarceration happened right after the
“Exodus?”

We see Satan in many other scripture throughout the
Bible (where he is aggravating Christ and His ministry as well as tempting Him
to bow before him) but no other scripture to pinpoint Satan’s journey (in or
out of Heaven) in any chronological fashion, other than the final scenario
where we see in Revelation 20:10, where the serpent, the devil, Satan, is seen being
felled by fire from above, and then thrown into the Lake of Fire.

Many theorists see Satan being bound for “a thousand
years” beginning at the cross, which is where the devil was defeated and could
no longer rule over mankind as he did before Christ paid the price for the sins
of mankind. Many see Satan being bound for 1000 literal years beginning on the
day when Christ returns to earth to set up a literal one thousand year
millennium period, then is let loose for a short period of time after the 1000
years, then destroys him right before he amasses the armies of Gog and Magog to
attack Jesus’ temporary headquarters at the City of Jerusalem, inside the
country of the state of Israel, where (supposedly) Jesus has supervised the
Jewish kingdom for one thousand years.

Therefore
the question begs to be asked, when was Satan kicked out of or fell from
Heaven? Did
this happen at the beginning of time when He came to earth and cohabitated with
human women, as we read in Genesis 6:1-2? Or was it during the days of Isaiah,
as we see in Isaiah 14:12? Was it when Christ defeated Satan when He paid the
price for sin at the cross, or immediately before Calvary when He told the
disciples He saw Satan fall falling from heaven as we read in Luke 10:17-19? Will this happen when Christ returns (during The Rapture or
seven years after) to rule on earth for 1000 years? More importantly, where is
Satan at right now? Is he still in Heaven accusing God’s children, held
prisoner in the abyss for 1000 literal years (called the Millennium), or is he
currently roaming around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour?

If we
cannot accurately answer these questions, we have to assume Satan has unlimited
access to some form of a shuttle bus that takes him back and forth to Heaven
(while still bound in the abyss for 1000) years), or, our eschatological
polemics have no exegetical authority whatsoever.

Most
Premillennial Dispensationalists present various chronological scenarios in
their ‘futurists’ dogma, while many others, such as Preterist (apersonwho believes
that thepropheciesintheApocalypsehave alreadybeenfulfilled) who maintains
that since Jesus has already returned (in 70 AD),then Satan has already been
sent to the Lake of Fire and his current status is moot!

What say ye?

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